Example read.table() statement to read the BHC datasets into R dataframes:
- simply copy and paste the string below into R, changing the file location to where you have saved and unzipped the downloaded text files
- a generic dataframe name is used below, corresponding to the naming convention of the BHC datasets
- na.strings is used to remove the row of dashes in order to read each column's format correctly
- comment.char and quote are used to ensure that text fields are not truncated
- the nrows option is specified so that R allocates memory efficiently
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